Benguluru Five eminent people from Karnataka are among the Padma awardees this year (2018). Saalumarada Thimmakka (social work — environment) Fondly called the Tree Woman’, 108-year-old Thimmakka is a green crusader who has planted over 400 trees on a 4-km stretch between Hulikal and Kudur in Bengaluru Rural district. Thimmakka and her husband decided to plant and nurture banyan saplings like their own children …
Rural India-set drama around menstruation, “Period. End of Sentence”, has made it to the 91st Academy Awards shortlist in the Documentary Short Subject category. Award winning filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi has directed the short film, which has been produced by Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment. Monga said she was happy with the recognition and wants the film to make it to the …
It is an 8ftx8ft windowless mud room with no electricity that is Vaishali Padmukh’s home for four days every month. Every time she gets her period, the 37-year-old resident of Sitatoli village in Gadchiroli district is banished to a ‘period hut’ known as kurma ghar or gaokar in local lingo. Located on the outskirts of the village, the hut is …
Berhampur At the crack of dawn every Saturday, the women of Guadang Gorjang, a tiny village in Odisha’s Gajapati district, 350km from the state capital Bhubaneswar, assemble at the village square. Splitting into three groups, they head off to clean roads and drains. Before settling down to their daily chores, they sit with local anganwadi workers and learn about children’s …
NEW DELHI: Holding that menstrual status of a woman is deeply personal and an intrinsic part of her privacy, the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday said that social stigma associated with the natural, biological and physiological process of a woman has no place in a constitutional order and any discrimination on that basis cannot be allowed. “The stigma around menstruation …
